The University of Mississippi Athletics
Coaches Want Freeze Coaching Their Sons
7/29/2016 | Athletics, Blog
Who would coaches want to coach their son if he was an elite prospect?รย ESPN's Chris Lowe polledรย the 23 head coaches in the Big 12 and SEC on that question, and Hugh Freeze was one of the top vote-getters.รย
One of the coaches had to say about Freeze, "Integrity would be extremely important to me, finding a coach who would always be honest with you and your son, and that's the kind of man Hugh is and the way he lives his life."
Freeze has won everywhere he's been, due in large part to the way players buy into his message. He compiled a 20-5 mark at Lambuth and took them to the second round in the NAIA playoffs for the first time in a decade. The year before he took over as head coach at Arkansas State, the Red Wolves went 4-8. With Freeze as the head coach, he coached them to a 10-win season. Then of course, he breathed life back into Ole Miss' football program faster than he even expected.รย
The reason for the success is the way Freeze runs his program. Nearly every player that chooses to play football for Hugh Freeze has the exact same reasoning: the program has a family-atmosphere about it and feels like home.รย
The atmosphere around the team carries over to more than wins and losses on the football field. In the spring semester of 2016, the football team posted their best-ever cumulative GPA. Players commonly contribute around the Oxford community and 19 players have forgone their spring breaks to go on mission trips to Panama and Haiti over the past three seasons.รย
Coach or not, that sounds like the type of person any father would want to entrust his son to for four years.
